Bile and spleen will cover your screen as the election’s called, but there are few more persuasive polemics than Seumas Milne’s The Enemy Within, a post-mortem of our darkest hour.
Army called in to suppress strikes? Check. Secondary picketing outlawed? Ditto. Security services misused to undermine democracy? Been there, outsourced the t-shirt.
Still, at least it could never happen now.
*slaps own head*
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Busted star Charlie Simpson (now fronting Fightstar) came clean about his true blue politics in October 2004.
He told Tatler, the rich man’s Hello! magazine:
“I don’t really like politics but I’ve always grown up with their view – the Tories’ way of doing things. I just prefer it,”
Busted bandmate Matt Jay added:
“From the financial position I am in now, I am a fucking Tory boy too.”
The band went on to invite Michael Howard to appear in a video; Simpson said:
“He owes us one, really, and we like the idea of doing our bit for the voting youth.”
Howard bottled it. Busted did their bit for the voting youth by splitting weeks later.
How can we not link to a story with that headline? Top notch politics blog Honourable Fiend does the decent thing and gives the other Dr Fox both barrels.
Michael Howard, meanwhile, is a closet Morrissey fan. Possibly.
Pop star paedophile Jonathan King was released on parole today – and guess who he’ll be backing in the general election?
A lengthy profile in The Observer reveals that the self-styled King of Hits had three prison pin-ups: Will Smith, Sam Fox and Margaret Thatcher.
King famously persuaded Thatcher to sing How Much Is That Doggy In The Window? at the 1990 Brit Awards.
After spending 3.5 years banged up at Her Majesty’s pleasure, we had expected his political views to have softened somewhat.
Of course they do. The Daily Mail-O-Matic creates random headlines straight from the pages of Britain’s favourite loony right wing paper. We recommend Mail Watch for a day-to-day rebuttal of nonsense such as…
“Married women in their mid-50s with two children living in Leeds are the happiest people in Britain, a new study claims.”
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“Rachel Hunter? She’s spotty, fat and finished”
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“Blackpool ‘good for your health’”
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Quotes are from today’s dailymail.co.uk. Spotted any other gems in the Mail or Express? Let us know with a link to the offending article.
Feeling queasy? Try the Adult Children of Daily Mail Readers rehab group.
Want news from Conservative Party HQ delivered to your desktop? Funny, us neither.
The Conservatives.com Internet Explorer toolbar displays headlines as they happen.
As well as Google searches, pop-up blocking and speedy access to Conservative Party sites (phew), it has a patented auto-repatriation feature for illegal asylum seekers.
We made that last bit up – but who knows in version two?
As there’s no privacy policy to say what happens to personal data, we assume that lists of sites and searches are sent pronto to Michael Howard’s inbox.
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UPDATE: Conservatives.com web accessibity claims are a sham too.
Forget Iraq, foundation hospitals or education. The real batteground for the general election will be popular music.
Labour’s ‘97 campaign was soundtracked by Things Can Only Get Better by the diabolical D:Ream. The 2003 Labour Party conference had Heather Small’s appalling Proud.
So what will be their 2005 campaign song? We say…
Think you know better? Let us know.
UPDATE: The 2005 Labour campaign song will be U2’s Beautiful Day. Last year Bono described Blair and Brown as the Lennon and McCartney of global development.
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